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Monday 5 of January of 2015
Come, A quick visit to Facebook. Photo, Photo, Photo. You have a message.
For the song, Because your colleague says: "¡Hey, mira este vídeo". But, shit, You are late for work. Tendrás que clickar en 'Ver más tarde', add it to that mountain of pending videos and run through the door. On the way, Maybe it will give you time to think that You can't continue like this. Quiet, You will soon be busy with something else. If you lack time to read this article, Possibly you need a change. However, ¿There is some way to live with technology without saturating all areas of our life?
Andy Puddicombe is an English Buddhist monk who proposes an alternative. Pindicombe wanted to bring the meditation to where it is most missing: The big cities. For it, took advantage of the technological possibilities instead of reneging from the 21st century. Thus was born the Headspace app.
Puddicombe broke with his routine after suffering A series of tragedies that threatened to destabilize him completely. Lost his ex -girlfriend in a clinical operation. He cried the death of his stepsister in a traffic accident. He also witnessed how a drunk driver overwhelmed his group of friends, Located a few meters from it, and killed two. That was when he left his studies to travel through the capitals of the East Meditation. Puddicombe formed traveling to places like India, Russia or a temple in Tibet. After spending ten years looking to recover mental peace, He returned to the West with a balanced life and, after all, feliz.
Again in the United Kingdom, Puddicombe set up a consultation through which soccer players and ministers of Parliament passed. His popularity climbed thanks to constant appearance on radio and television. Then we were surprised with Headspace, The meditation app.
Instead of reneging from the 21st century, The monk Andy Puddicome decided to take advantage of the technological possibilities
How Candy Crush, But to meditate
Gonkar Gyatso
Puddment account that at first had serious doubts about whether to launch the app. "En la tradición tibetana existe un linaje oral inquebrantable con casi 900 years of history. There is some risk in climbing it, get it out of your environment, diluirlo", He said a Wired. However, After several years of operation, The app has already been downloaded by more than one million users, And not only in the West. "En un monasterio tibetano de Nepal utilizan Headspace durante diez días antes de empezar a entrenar su meditación", assures its founder.
Of entry, Headspace It looks like a video game like Candy Crush. It works like this: You register and access a main itinerary in which you will meditate to concentrate on several goals: health, Social Relations and Work. In ten minutes sessions. In the alternative itinerary, Puddicombe's team has created three -minute sleep sessions, To cook and even to run.
In addition to Headspace, exist Other apps to meditate, Some of them free. The truly innovative of these applications is that developers have taken advantage of technology to relieve the madness that technology produces.
"¿When was the last time you had a little time to do nothing? That means that no emails, messages, internet, chats, television; Nothing to eat or drink; Don't even sit down to remember the past or plan the future. Simplemente haciendo nada". With these words Andy pudddes his Ted talk, a reflection that already accumulates 4,5 millions of reproductions. Medítal it too, if you like. Thanks also for reading this article and , above all, Congratulations on having the time to do it.
These developers have taken advantage of technology to relieve the madness that she produces herself.
